FIELABS

We identify, incubate, showcase and scale innovative solutions that tackle pressing social-economic challenges within our communities

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Who We Are

Fie_Labs is an innovation and entrepreneurship hub that identifies & nurtures next-gen innovators, entrepreneurs & creative problem solvers. We are the SoapStone Highlands Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Innovation Ecosystem Builder

We identify, incubate, showcase and scale innovative solutions that tackle pressing social-economic challenges within our communities

To be the ultimate source of disruptive innovations helping Africa overcome current social-economic challenges & leapfrog into the 5th industrial revolution.

At Fie_labs we identify and nurture next-gen innovators, entrepreneurs & creative problem solvers from Africa.

  • Innovation
  • Creativity
  • Deep Thinking
  • Risk Taking
  • Fail Fast
  • Kaizen
  • Team Spirit
    • To identify and nurture the next generation of creative problem solvers
    • To create a community where innovators, entrepreneurs, coders & creatives
      converge to learn, collaborate, co-create, pilot and launch sustainable solutions
      for local & global challenges
    • To tap into the ingenuity of rural youths and women and support them to
      develop sustainable solutions to pressing challenges within their communities
    • To create tech & technology enabled opportunities within the gig economy for
      entrepreneurs & innovators in rural communities
    • To leapfrog rural communities into the digital economy and the 5th industrial
      revolution

 

Board of Advisors

Meagan Isabel Keefe

Associate Director, Program of African Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Prof. Anakalo Shitandi

Director of Research and Extension at Kisii University in Kisii, Kenya.

Dr. Peter Okoth

Founder and CEO of Zingo Connect LLC, a scientist in the agriculture sector; an entrepreneur.